Veterans...Get the hell in here now!
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BM9AGS
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Is your avatar chick your GF now? She is a forum member I thought....
6ohMax
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BarnBuster
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Every time I see one of these about Ernie's generation, I think wouldn't we have been in a world of shit without them and those who never returned but still stand guard.
Emotional video of a World War II veteran "having one of the best days of his life" after being honored by chief selects in front of his Gardena home recently has touched many people after being widely viewed and shared online.
The veteran in the video, Ernest Thompson, served on the USS Missouri during the second world war, according to Jonathan Williams, the CEO of the Battleship Iowa Museum and the man's grandson.
Williams recalled in a Facebook comment under the viral video that Thompson regularly visited the USS Iowa, which is the sister-ship to the USS Missouri and located approximately 15 minutes from the veteran's house.
Due to health reasons, however, Thompson -- now in his 90s -- has been unable to visit the ship, according to the Battleship Iowa news release.
With the help of volunteer coordinators, the chief selects from the Fleet Anti-Submarine Warfare Training Center visited Thompson's home and sang the Navy's march song, "Anchors Aweigh" in the middle of his residential street.
While the singing went on, Thompson stood and saluted, "inspiring those around him," the release stated.
The remarkable thing, according to a spokesman for the museum, is that Thompson had a fall earlier this year and had not been able to walk or stand since then.
After the singing concluded, the chief selects walked one-by-one up to Thompson on the veteran's porch to shake his hand.
"My grandfather told me that it was one of the best days of his life," Williams wrote on Facebook.
The video, posted by Williams on Aug. 13, has gone viral, with more than 95,000 shares and over 4.3 million views as of Tuesday morning.
“I am so surprised and overwhelmed at the attention that it has received. I was so incredibly impacted by this that I felt other veterans should be able to experience this too," Williams said in the release.
Thompson was aboard the USS Tennessee when Pearl Harbor was attacked and later witnessed Japan surrender when he was on the USS Missouri, according to the release.
Emotional video of a World War II veteran "having one of the best days of his life" after being honored by chief selects in front of his Gardena home recently has touched many people after being widely viewed and shared online.
The veteran in the video, Ernest Thompson, served on the USS Missouri during the second world war, according to Jonathan Williams, the CEO of the Battleship Iowa Museum and the man's grandson.
Williams recalled in a Facebook comment under the viral video that Thompson regularly visited the USS Iowa, which is the sister-ship to the USS Missouri and located approximately 15 minutes from the veteran's house.
Due to health reasons, however, Thompson -- now in his 90s -- has been unable to visit the ship, according to the Battleship Iowa news release.
With the help of volunteer coordinators, the chief selects from the Fleet Anti-Submarine Warfare Training Center visited Thompson's home and sang the Navy's march song, "Anchors Aweigh" in the middle of his residential street.
While the singing went on, Thompson stood and saluted, "inspiring those around him," the release stated.
The remarkable thing, according to a spokesman for the museum, is that Thompson had a fall earlier this year and had not been able to walk or stand since then.
After the singing concluded, the chief selects walked one-by-one up to Thompson on the veteran's porch to shake his hand.
"My grandfather told me that it was one of the best days of his life," Williams wrote on Facebook.
The video, posted by Williams on Aug. 13, has gone viral, with more than 95,000 shares and over 4.3 million views as of Tuesday morning.
“I am so surprised and overwhelmed at the attention that it has received. I was so incredibly impacted by this that I felt other veterans should be able to experience this too," Williams said in the release.
Thompson was aboard the USS Tennessee when Pearl Harbor was attacked and later witnessed Japan surrender when he was on the USS Missouri, according to the release.
Bob Zmuda
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Wait, wait, wait....It was pretty funny.
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And I'm pretty sure that these AF awards on the left breast pocket denote service in a non Air-conditioned space.
Stop the train.
How come I never knew you had the most awesome hair in the world?
It needs its own thread.
Olive Drab Green
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Sorry, super ripped. Forgot to read the post before I responded. Just saw you were in the thread.
BarnBuster
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The Marine Corps said in a statement Wednesday that it misidentified two men long thought to have helped raise the first of two American flags atop Mount Suribachi during the bloody battle for the Japanese island of Iwo Jima in 1945.
The revelations come a little more than two months since the Marines said they had mistaken one of the individuals who helped raised the second flag, a moment captured in the iconic and Pulitzer-winning photograph taken by AP photographer Joe Rosenthal.
The tale of the two flags and the men who raised them on Feb. 23, 1945, has been a part of Marine Corps lore. But the details of what happened that day have been under closer scrutiny since the publication in 2014 of an Omaha World-Herald article featuring research by two amateur historians showing that one person had been misidentified in Rosenthal’s famous photograph.
In May, the Marine Corps announced it had begun looking into Rosenthal’s photograph, following inquiries from documentary filmmakers. The following month, the service said a panel — led by a retired Marine general — had concluded that a Marine in the second flag-raising had been misidentified. Navy Pharmacist’s Mate James Bradley was actually a Marine private from Detroit named Harold Schultz.
Bradley, a Navy Cross recipient and subject of his son’s book-later-turned-movie “Flags of our Fathers,” was instead in the lesser-known, first flag-raising.
At the conclusion of the investigation into the second flag-raising, the same panel, using some of the same photographic evidence and material from the initial inquiry, looked into the first flag-raising.
The panel’s conclusion? Two Marines, Pfc. Louis C. Charlo and Pfc. James R. Michels, did not participate in the initial flag-raising, as had been previously documented. Charlo, however, participated in a four-man reconnaissance patrol that went up Suribachi, while Michels held perimeter security nearby as the first flag went up.
Charles P. Neimeyer, the director of the Marines’ History Division, said in a phone interview that an independent researcher had first approached the Marine Corps in 2011 with evidence that Charlo and Michels were not in the initial flag raising and decided after the investigation into Rosenthal’s photograph that it would be prudent to try to update the record regarding the first raising.
The men who raised the first flag, according to the Marines’ statement Wednesday, were 1st Lt. Harold G. Schrier, PhM2c John H. Bradley, Sgt. Ernest I. Thomas Jr., Sgt. Henry O. Hansen, Cpl. Charles W. Lindberg and Pvt. Philip L. Ward.
Unlike the second flag raising, there were no pictures taken of the first flag going up, yet to the Marines fighting below, the sight of that initial flag flying was far more significant. It was the first indication they had seized the island’s most significant piece of terrain and that the bloody battle might one day come to an end. On the summit, the only camera nearby as the first flag went up belonged to Staff Sgt. Louis Lowery, a Marine combat photographer with Leatherneck Magazine. As the flag was hoisted skyward he was reloading his film after snapping a series of pictures moments before.
“Our history is important, and we owe it to our Marines and their families to ensure it is as accurate as possible. After we reviewed the second flag raising and found inconsistencies, we wanted to take another look at the first flag raising to make sure we had it correct,” said Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Robert Neller in a statement.
In the waning months of World War II, with massive quad-engine B-29 Superfortresses regularly bombing mainland Japan, the United States decided that Iwo Jima — with its lone airstrip — was an ideal spot for damaged bombers to land on their long return flights back to the Northern Mariana Islands.
The operation to seize the island, known as Operation Detachment, would last just over a month and cost the lives of more than 5,000 Marines and almost the entirety of the roughly 21,000 Japanese soldiers defending the volcanic, porkchop-shaped scab of earth.
When the flags went up on Feb. 23, the Marines had been fighting for nearly four days. Japanese machine gun nests and snipers dug in across the base of Suribachi had raked the Americans as they drew closer to the 550-foot mound, but on the morning of Feb. 23, the initial reconnaissance patrol that ascended the hill encountered no resistance, according to Marine Corps documents.
As the recon patrol descended the mountain, a roughly 30 man patrol from Echo Company 2nd Battalion, 28th Marine Regiment, led by 1st Lt. Harold G. Schrier, began its trek up Suribachi. Schrier had been given a small American flag from another lieutenant who had been told by 2nd Battalion’s commander to make sure the patrol took the flag up the mountain, according to documents provided by the Marine Corps.
After a nearly two hour hike, Schrier’s men reached the summit and established defensive positions while a small element looked for a place to put up the flag. Two Marines found a piece of Japanese drainage pipe, while five others affixed the flag.
At around 10:30 a.m. on Feb. 23, 1945, the first American flag went up over Iwo Jima. Ships offshore sounded their horns. Marines looked at their watches and up from their foxholes.
Over the years, many of the eyewitnesses, Neimeyer said, remembered the first flag going up, while almost no one had an exact time for when the second flag was actually raised.
Shortly after Lowrey snapped his pictures and Schrier radioed that the summit was secure, the first flag was taken down and was sent back to the bottom of the mountain to 2nd battalion’s commanding officer. The flag was to be turned into a war trophy and replaced on Suribachi with a more prominent one, so roughly two hours later, a resupply patrol snaked its way back to the top of the mountain, this time with a bigger flag and the photographer Rosenthal in tow.
By Thomas Gibbons-Neff
The Washington Post
Published: August 24, 2016
The revelations come a little more than two months since the Marines said they had mistaken one of the individuals who helped raised the second flag, a moment captured in the iconic and Pulitzer-winning photograph taken by AP photographer Joe Rosenthal.
The tale of the two flags and the men who raised them on Feb. 23, 1945, has been a part of Marine Corps lore. But the details of what happened that day have been under closer scrutiny since the publication in 2014 of an Omaha World-Herald article featuring research by two amateur historians showing that one person had been misidentified in Rosenthal’s famous photograph.
In May, the Marine Corps announced it had begun looking into Rosenthal’s photograph, following inquiries from documentary filmmakers. The following month, the service said a panel — led by a retired Marine general — had concluded that a Marine in the second flag-raising had been misidentified. Navy Pharmacist’s Mate James Bradley was actually a Marine private from Detroit named Harold Schultz.
Bradley, a Navy Cross recipient and subject of his son’s book-later-turned-movie “Flags of our Fathers,” was instead in the lesser-known, first flag-raising.
At the conclusion of the investigation into the second flag-raising, the same panel, using some of the same photographic evidence and material from the initial inquiry, looked into the first flag-raising.
The panel’s conclusion? Two Marines, Pfc. Louis C. Charlo and Pfc. James R. Michels, did not participate in the initial flag-raising, as had been previously documented. Charlo, however, participated in a four-man reconnaissance patrol that went up Suribachi, while Michels held perimeter security nearby as the first flag went up.
Charles P. Neimeyer, the director of the Marines’ History Division, said in a phone interview that an independent researcher had first approached the Marine Corps in 2011 with evidence that Charlo and Michels were not in the initial flag raising and decided after the investigation into Rosenthal’s photograph that it would be prudent to try to update the record regarding the first raising.
The men who raised the first flag, according to the Marines’ statement Wednesday, were 1st Lt. Harold G. Schrier, PhM2c John H. Bradley, Sgt. Ernest I. Thomas Jr., Sgt. Henry O. Hansen, Cpl. Charles W. Lindberg and Pvt. Philip L. Ward.
Unlike the second flag raising, there were no pictures taken of the first flag going up, yet to the Marines fighting below, the sight of that initial flag flying was far more significant. It was the first indication they had seized the island’s most significant piece of terrain and that the bloody battle might one day come to an end. On the summit, the only camera nearby as the first flag went up belonged to Staff Sgt. Louis Lowery, a Marine combat photographer with Leatherneck Magazine. As the flag was hoisted skyward he was reloading his film after snapping a series of pictures moments before.
“Our history is important, and we owe it to our Marines and their families to ensure it is as accurate as possible. After we reviewed the second flag raising and found inconsistencies, we wanted to take another look at the first flag raising to make sure we had it correct,” said Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Robert Neller in a statement.
In the waning months of World War II, with massive quad-engine B-29 Superfortresses regularly bombing mainland Japan, the United States decided that Iwo Jima — with its lone airstrip — was an ideal spot for damaged bombers to land on their long return flights back to the Northern Mariana Islands.
The operation to seize the island, known as Operation Detachment, would last just over a month and cost the lives of more than 5,000 Marines and almost the entirety of the roughly 21,000 Japanese soldiers defending the volcanic, porkchop-shaped scab of earth.
When the flags went up on Feb. 23, the Marines had been fighting for nearly four days. Japanese machine gun nests and snipers dug in across the base of Suribachi had raked the Americans as they drew closer to the 550-foot mound, but on the morning of Feb. 23, the initial reconnaissance patrol that ascended the hill encountered no resistance, according to Marine Corps documents.
As the recon patrol descended the mountain, a roughly 30 man patrol from Echo Company 2nd Battalion, 28th Marine Regiment, led by 1st Lt. Harold G. Schrier, began its trek up Suribachi. Schrier had been given a small American flag from another lieutenant who had been told by 2nd Battalion’s commander to make sure the patrol took the flag up the mountain, according to documents provided by the Marine Corps.
After a nearly two hour hike, Schrier’s men reached the summit and established defensive positions while a small element looked for a place to put up the flag. Two Marines found a piece of Japanese drainage pipe, while five others affixed the flag.
At around 10:30 a.m. on Feb. 23, 1945, the first American flag went up over Iwo Jima. Ships offshore sounded their horns. Marines looked at their watches and up from their foxholes.
Over the years, many of the eyewitnesses, Neimeyer said, remembered the first flag going up, while almost no one had an exact time for when the second flag was actually raised.
Shortly after Lowrey snapped his pictures and Schrier radioed that the summit was secure, the first flag was taken down and was sent back to the bottom of the mountain to 2nd battalion’s commanding officer. The flag was to be turned into a war trophy and replaced on Suribachi with a more prominent one, so roughly two hours later, a resupply patrol snaked its way back to the top of the mountain, this time with a bigger flag and the photographer Rosenthal in tow.
By Thomas Gibbons-Neff
The Washington Post
Published: August 24, 2016
haight
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Hey, once there was a soldier marching down the road in the cold, freezing rain and he said- This sucks!It was pretty funny.
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And I'm pretty sure that these AF awards on the left breast pocket denote service in a non Air-conditioned space.
Meanwhile a squid was tying down a piece of tarp in the cold freezing rain and he said- This sucks!
And an airman walked into the dayroom picked up the remote and said -What, no cable, this sucks!
Gary Goodson
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tangerinegreen555
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whitebb2727
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Funny.
Everyone thinks the AF has it easy. That may be true for a few, mainly anyone in the office of personal or certain other groups.
Other than that I ate a lot of shit in the AF. See the Air Force in its wisdom decided to create the "lean machine" and downsize. They would combine 3-4 jobs together. Then being 40% manned on top of that, you can only imagine.
Was just teasing - my Dad was retired AF.
whitebb2727
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Its cool. I know anyone that has been around AF know how it is.
You know the jokes.
Why does navy men have their name sewn on thier back pocket?
Jokes like that. Its pretty common for different branches to poke at each other.
Hell, in tech school I was on a naval station. We got in fights most every day.
buzzardbreath
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I spent some time on ships with the Navy or squids as we called them. I was an Amphibious Assault Vehicle crewchief in the Marines, we splashed off the back of ships and hit the beaches full of grunts carrying lead.
Shit, Where was I? oh, chow line on ship always got sketchy.
Good weed. Maybe its the alchohol weed mix, working today.